"The group appears to have been incorporated at Companies House last week as a business named Lawyers for Media Rights, whose sole director is Jeremy Clarke-Williams, a privacy and libel specialist at Russell Jones and Walker, the law firm....Neither Mr Clarke-Williams nor Collyer Bristow, the law firm bringing the legal challenge on behalf of Lawyers for Media Standards, responded to requests for comment...

"The ministry said it had received the Lawyers for Media Standards letter and would reply by next week. It said success fees had been the subject of public comment for some time, adding that the shortness of the consultation period had allowed it to put in place an interim solution while it considered its response to a much more wide-ranging review of legal costs reform published in January."

Lawyer 2B website quotes Sarah Webb, head of media, libel and privacy at RJW , as saying that Lawyers for Media Standards' mission is to add balance to the ongoing debate about defamation costs:

"[Defendant] media lawyers acting as a group have had much greater access to Jack Straw than we have. There's clearly an advantage to having a ­cohesive approach."